It seems to go up each week at the moment... and to make it worse, normal unleaded still seems to be the same price!, surely if they just put that up by 0.5p it would let them bring down the price of v-power by a couple of pence...... I know its my decision to pay, but the car likes it..... its just starting to get expensive...!!

Thats it rant over, I think that feels better, what are you currently paying??

Ian

 

i was so poor the other day when i filled up, i couldnt afford a newspaper

 

105.9 for the last 2 weeks or so, SE London.

 

around 101.9p in aberdeen

 

Simple answer: Tune your car to run on 95ron (presuming there is some reason why it can't run on it already).

Loss in power is minimal, or to say the least; unoticable.

 

Personally I don't know why the petrol prices are going up . Yes I know it went up in a delayed budget rise but that was on the 1st October.

Maybe its us paying for Shell's and BP's Christmas party. I've heard they have both decided to hire seperate tropical islands for the whole festive period and roll in all their millions of pounds profit they make daily .

Wolfie.

 

I think you'll find it might also have something to do with the price of oil being at a record high; it touched $93 per barrel for the first time yesterday and is expected to get to the $100 point later this year. All I can say is there'd better be a good bonus next year for those of us working in the oil industry...

 

Computer says No

 

paid 1.08 on the motorway at the weekend!!!!!!!

 

petrol dont cost me to much because i never go out in my car.

 

i just filled up and paid 105.9 at the shell garage in risca gwent

 

But why is the oil price so high? Thats what I dont understand . They usually blame it on something thats happening in the world but nothing much has changed in the last 2 months.

Wolfie.

 

107.9 the other day in Sedgley

 

Does vary a bit in Dundee, from 99.9 ~ 106.9 don't ask me why ??
Craig.

 

started using tesco 99 now

although i seem to get less mpg!!!!

.... swings and roundabouts (although roundabouts are more fun)

 

Yep, spend over £50 on your shopping and get your petrol for 5p a litre cheaper too! Hence the reason why Ive switched from Shell to Tesco..

Surely its time we protested again as a nation and got the government to drop some of their ridiculous tax off the cost of petrol. What do they expect us to do? No decent transport, what are we supposed to do? Buy a donkey???

 

I was passing though Warwick last Thursday and topped up with V-Power and didn't notice until almost finished, the price was on the pump at - 112.9p Thieving scum! Normal unleaded was "normal" at 98.9p V-Power is usually 7p more than normal unleaded.
JohnD

 

I paid 105.9 for DIESEL yesterday (For my wok van ). Ridiculous.

 

Something like protests at the visit of the king of Saudi Arabia would be excuse enough for a panic on the oil market! We know that's stupid but it's a good excuse to make mega more profit.
JohnD

 

same here, s west

 

I dont get it the last time every one kicked off and blockaded the terminals it was to protest about it rising to around 85 pence a litre. yet nothing has been done since

 

I guess fuel will always vary wherever in the uk you are .... but up here it goes drom 98.9 to about 105.9 and yes that is V-power prices spend more time looking for the cheaper garage and in turn spend more fuel in getting there. Tesco's is coming to be the preferred option and then all you do is add octane booster to up the Ron level.

 

Is there any other product that can vary so much from branch to branch of the same retailer?

Why do we, as the paying public, accept this as the norm?

 

97.9p for me

 

There are lots of reasons - if you search on the BBC site there are various reports about it. The main reasons are increasing tension over Northern Iraq with Turkey, increasing incidence of kidnapping of oil workers in Nigeria, reduced production in Mexico due to bad weather, lower than expected oil stocks in the US and the time of year (i.e. winter - demand surges in the US).

As you said, there's no one big driving force at present, but lots of smaller ones add up. FWIW, the oil companies themselves mainly blame speculators on the stock exchanges for driving prices up.

Can you tell I work for an oil company yet?

 

97.9 for me on the A12, still cost me £52.13 to fill up at lunchtime!

That's the most I've ever put in.

 

95.9p for me and it costs 90 quid to fill up to the top

but that is normal unleaded

 

I paid 102.9p for regular unleaded the other day. Only noticed after I put it in

 

£1.03 in Cheltenham

 

Sonic... "95.9p for me and it costs 90 quid to fill up to the top
but that is normal unleaded"


How big is your tank? or were you filling up the boot .......